474 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



are fuscous, posterior femora dusky, tarsi rather lighter than 

 tibiae; veins of the wings light brown, stigmal vein half as long 

 as marginal and less than one-fourth as long as submarginal; 

 abdomen smooth, shining, black at tip, cordate, sessile, and 

 obtusely triangular. 



Listed as an American parasite of the cosmopolitan Angou- 

 mois grain-moth (Gelechia cerealella), from the larvae of which 

 the type specimens were reared. 



P. (Hypopteromalus) tabacum Fitch. 



Length 2.5 mm. ; mostly dark green, with a brassy reflection ; 

 head about three times as broad as long, finely shagreened, eyes 

 dull red in life, brown in death, ocelli equidistant or nearly so, 

 mandibles yellow, but brown at tip, 4-dentate, palpi dull white, 

 antennae inserted in the middle of the face, subclavate, brown ex- 

 cept the first joint, which is dull pale yellow, pubescent, appar- 

 ently 9-jointed, second joint the smallest, but little longer than 

 thick, and obconic in form, third joint three times as long and 

 nearly three times as thick as the preceding, and pear-shaped, 

 ring- joints two in number, fourth and succeeding joints nearly 

 equal and square in outline, apical joint about three times as long 

 as the one preceding it, and oval or subovate in form, rounded 

 at base and pointed at apex, and possibly 3- jointed ; thorax 

 scarcely as wide as the head, three times as long as wide, parap- 

 sidal grooves present; legs pale wax-yellow, except the tarsi and 

 ends of the tibiae, which are dull white, and the posterior femora, 

 which are black with their tips pale yellow and the outer aspect 

 greenish blue, tarsi 5- jointed and dusky at tips; wings trans- 

 parent, veins brown or brownish ; abdomen one-third shorter than 

 the thorax and in life thicker than the thorax, egg-shaped, con- 

 vex, with its tip acute, smooth, polished, greenish black, the 

 middle segments each with a broad purple-black band ; abdomen 

 black beneath. 



Listed as an American parasite of the cosmopolitan insect 

 Calandra oryzce. 



Reared from Phlegethontins, New Haven, September, 1909 

 (A. I. Bourne). 



P. sp. 



Hosts: (Grapta) Polygonia progne and (Melitcea) Euphy- 

 dryas phaeton. 



